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Stuck in a rut-any suggestions?

Lately I've been getting lazy and buying six packs of beer and heading home to sit on my butt instead of working out. It's important for me to workout too because I need to keep the weight I've lost off.

It's not like I'm a alcoholic and need AA, it's just I get lazy and stuck in ruts alot. Sometmes the ruts are really positve (if thats possible-are all ruts supposed to be negative?). Anyways...I'm struggling a little, I guess. Drinking beer tends to make me depreseed somedays. Other days it relaxes me. It's a stupid thing to do, I know. This whole post is pretty lame but it's the venting forum so I won't get attacked by acuriousfish on how its not a crisis.

Anyways...anybody else having this kind of trouble? Again, I'm not a alcoholic. All I drink is beer. I know this might sound like an excuse but its not. I just want to get back into my postive ruts instead of the negative ones. lol. Anyways...any suggestions?

lol. thanks RITKat. I definately don't think it was necessary for me to post this. Wish I could delete it. It is a problem I think I'm going to have to confront. I just think I need to get back into a positive routine instead of the one I'm in now. I'm just stuck, I guess.

While what you do or don't do is your business, there are plenty of alcoholics who have only used beer. Alcohol is alcohol, no matter the source. One beer equals one shot of whiskey equals one glass of wine. I'm not one who never drinks but try not to say nonsensical stuff about it. Sometimes to get out of our rut we've got to put down the ducky! And it's all up to you or me. That's scary to me.

I've never been able to have a truly positive rut...but if you feel you need to change things up...maybe limit the 6 packs to weekends...and invite some friends over. I drink beer roughly 3 times a week and have been in a &quot;rut&quot; for the past year...mostly unable to get a job/monetary issues...I'm by no means an alcoholic and I drink to make a solid attempt to enjoy my &quot;rut&quot; and my youth. But I also only drink with friends...never alone. In terms of mainting your weight I don't know what to tell you because I haven't been able to find the motivation to start working out again. I've been an athlete the majority of my life...until mid college. I'm not in terrible shape by any means but I feel weaker than ever in terms of strength from being lazy/ in this rut. Mostly because no money = no courting of good women = no need to look good because I'm happy with how I look...Even with a little extra beer in me. I get too many girls that just want to hook up in any case, but thats also not optimal since I'm over &quot;hooking up&quot;. Don't let it become a problem and it won't be.

Ok, it sounds like exercise might help and it's obvious but alcohol is a depressant so there you go. You have control over what you put in your body and if it takes substituting a non-alcoholic beer to wean yourself off beer completely, that might be a good first step. Starting slow, like walks a few days a week. And possibly a session with a therapist to give you more ideas to help you get out of this rut. You might also talk to your psychiatrist and see if a med tweak is in order.

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